About us

In order to know exactly what GameMania is all about and what our goal is, we’ve written down the most necessary things here. But for you to understand everything, we need to go a little further. So don’t be surprised that this text is a little bigger. It’s definitely worth reading the whole thing!

When the pictures … errhh players learned to walk, the multiplayer was born. Since there were already some games until 2006 that had multiplayer mode, we were there as players. The problem at that time was simply to find high quality servers where you weren’t kicked / banned without reason or where you could find a reasonable setup in terms of maps & mods. Other servers always wanted to see cash money to get access to the servers or read through a kilometer long list to be activated after 3 weeks. That annoyed a GameMania admin (Hoerli) so much that he decided to go online with his own game servers shortly after. Because he wanted a server that was fed with good maps and some mods to improve the gaming experience even more. There should never be VIP or Premium status, which should strongly restrict the joining and using of the server. We never wanted to have a set of rules as thick as the bible. But the beginning was hard. Therefore it took until about August 2006 until the first servers went online. At that time, GameMania was represented under a different name, but it already had the basic idea back then as you find it today. The first servers were hosted for games like TrackMania Nations Forever and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Multiplayer (SA:MP). Additionally, our first Teamspeak 2 server was already online at that time. They even quickly found “fans” who visited the server daily, despite bad connections. At that time we even had to use opening hours for servers, because we couldn’t keep them online 24/7. The server at that time had a CPU with 1.3GHz, 512MB RAM and was connected to a DSL 3000 with 350kbps upload.

Around 2008, the GameMania team consisted of about 5-6 people. At that time, the project was baptized GameMania, because the former name just didn’t fit anymore and something contemporary was needed. After a short consideration we came up with this name. Shortly afterwards the website was launched under the name GameMania with the domain gamemania.tk. This was necessary to inform all visitors with the most important information about the servers. With the TK domain we could save immense costs for a top-level domain and it fulfilled the purpose. Little by little more and more game servers were added. These included TrackMania², Minecraft, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Counter-Strike, ARMA3, ARK: Survival Evolved and other games. At the beginning of 2009 we could already bring the first servers 24/7 online. More and more visitors found their way to our TrackMania server. In 2009 we already had about 300 visitors per day on a single server. After some time more and more servers were added to the network to give you the best power and to enable a fair online play. So in 2010 our first Teamspeak 3 server was opened.

In 2014 we were finally able to rent a vServer through collected donations, which since then provides the necessary power that we and especially you need for gambling! Since then our servers are running day and night and are always ready for a round! The GameMania team has grown to about 7-10 members, who are always looking after the servers and of course play on the servers themselves! So we have become a fun bunch of people who all just want to play. In August 2015 we started planning again and made GameMania an even better meeting place for gamers. In September 2015 our new homepage with new design, logo, new additional admins and even more features went online. From now on we not only deliver high quality game servers, but also a YouTube channel, which delivers new videos almost daily! Since we are also very interested in games without dedicated servers, we are of course also represented there. For example, we have a group in Grand Theft Auto V (Online) and other lobby-based games. Joining and playing is explicitly allowed there!

So you see, we’ve been here forever. But what is our goal, or why are we doing this exactly? As mentioned in the beginning, we want to provide you with servers that:

• are maintained
• have a meaningful map mix
• Is equipped with good and working plugins
• Bug free, cheater free, hacker free and troll free is
• The Admins take care and maintain
• Remain loyal to the community and fulfill wishes.
• Always and for everyone who has a legal copy of the game can join the server
• No clan-only servers are
• Do not sell VIP or Premium rights

Many servers in different games went online and also offline again. Because we currently host only what the community wants. If a game is not really “in” anymore and there are clearly no visitors, we take the servers offline to give the resources to other game servers or to create new servers. So we can always provide you with the best performance for a fair, lag-free gaming experience. But we always stay true to the old games. So we always have a backup available and can turn on old servers again!

Are the servers really free?

Yes - everything is and remains as it was! Our servers are 100% free for YOU to use! You only need a legal license of the game and you have to use anti-cheat software to protect the servers from cheaters/hackers.

Is there no Premium / VIP at all?

No! No way! But we will take the opportunity to give users who have donated money or support us with servers, give certain rights on servers or provide them with e.g. additional icons / skins. But these are ALWAYS set so that the free players have no restrictions! Whoever does not pay anything, may still play!

Isn’t the whole thing expensive in the long run?

Yes, it is! We keep our head above water with donations and especially with our own capital. For example, we are always happy when we are supported with additional servers. It does not matter if it is a pure game server or even a vServer or Root-Server. If you want to help us in this way, simply turn off the AdBlock on the website and on our YouTube channel and use the partner links to shop online. So you have no costs and help us to keep the servers online. How much does all this fun cost you per month? Because we are forced by law to keep some numbers secret, we will not tell you how much the monthly costs are. Let me tell you, the amount is not small and we can barely manage it. We don’t plan to get rich with GameMania either. The whole thing is mostly privately financed and operated by private persons.

Can you earn good money with such servers?

No! Hosting and maintaining game servers costs money and nerves. We cannot earn money with our servers. We don’t plan to. We also don’t want to take the money out of your pocket with premium content or VIP rights. We are just a funny bunch of people who have fun playing. We like to host servers and keep many communities alive in games!

Who leads the whole project?

The real inventor and founder of GameMania is Hoerli. There is no “official” leader. We have several admins who all always take care of the game servers, homepage and voice servers. Everything lies in private hands.

Now you know why there is GameMania! We hope that thereby your will to the gambling has become still bigger and we may welcome you furthermore on our servers! Still questions? Just come to our Teamspeak 3 Sever or ask your question by e-mail to us! We will gladly help you!

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General note

We were informed that there is a shop in the Netherlands and Belgium, which is also called GameMania and sells computer games. We are not affiliated with this company. It is pure coincidence that we have the same names. We can be recognized by the fact that we have limited our offer to German and English.